[cgbg]

if the warlike efforts to stop the spread of the virus fail ..."

The numbers cannot possibly change for the better in the next few weeks. Testing is still in the infancy stage in most states, there are thousands and thousands of unknown positives, doubling every three days or so. The latency period can be up to three and even four weeks in some cases...

[Thud]

I entirely agree. I regarded that term as fedspeak for “It’s going down on Monday”.